VPR Cast#102: “Itwas Luck”

Welcome to our 102nd mmo podcast at mmoSmacktalk.com! This evening we are joined by the god of war himself; look in the dictionary under sticky back, and you will see his pic! Here to make us better men, and Destroyers, welcome Itwas Luck!

Blatant troll; not even amusing (just annoying). The history was interesting other than the interviewer being thoroughly inattentive when he described it. “So then DHW and They merged to create TSL” ===> “So then they separated to covenant of the phoenix?”…. argh!

The funny thing is, if he was or was not trolling, the ‘in house’ beta test the devs are currently running is still under NDA. So even if this was not a troll, their reaction to tell us to ignore it would not change, they would still deny it if it was actually true.

Listening to the troll cast now. I was confused by the comments saying you have a lisp but after listening it is definitely something with the audio quality. You do not have a lisp but something with the quality is giving you one in this cast.

God damn another 3+ hour podcast. After what Battle Smurf said about Itwas Luck and I believe him to be honest. I will have to see if I want to give up three hours of my life. For those of you who have been paying attention to the comments between me and Ryan, I do address my feelings about DFO, Macros, etc in my current podcast. Until me and Ryan and do a cast, I had to get the poison out.

I am having massive difficulty believing hes actually in the beta. However, it is quite clear he is hacking and it is actually not difficult to tell at all. That anyone would question that is confusing to me with how easily it is to tell.

@Evades: I think it might be a logical conclusion to arrive at (re hacking), but I had to extend the benefit of the doubt and ask. As I mentioned in the cast, when my brother and I played CS (way back in the day), he’d be accused of hacking, yet he wasnt. He was just good.

RE whether luck was in beta or not – suffice it to say that if he was lying about his beta access, then everything else he said should be ignored and discarded.

@ryan: With that situation involving your brother in mind, your point is very understandable. I aswell have seen other players be called hackers in various games but could tell they were simply very skilled. I am without a doubt 100% convinced that is not the case here. But i do understand that in your situation you needed to give the benefit of the doubt. Hopefully we can get some guaranteed facts about DF unholy wars because we are all dying to hear anything we can.

@ryan: heh soon as we can get in i am taking my guild and we are going to just do every single thing that game has to offer. Probably be in it for years. It is killing me to have to wait and im sure several others. Just hoping it will have great advertisement as everyone i mention it to still has never heard of it. Im trying my best to spread the word about it but we will just have to see. I do know it will be amazing 😉

@Evades: Which guild? Yeah, I’m looking forward to it a too. I think/am hoping it will likely appeal to a larger player base, if for nothing else, due to the ROLE system. Even young Miguelito (IHM) was looking for guidance in terms of a class system when he played recently (yes, just called IHM on the mat).

@ryan: Epic is our guild name. 17 year old guild :). And yea the role system i amd def looking forward to. Im very sad they arent bringing the idea of prestige classes back. The had soooo many options for classes to focus on if you didnt want hybrid. But i will be rolling skirmisher and my goal is always to try to be the top 1v1 pvper and the role system setup sounds perfect for making it fun for me. The wobble ( if it exists ) might be an issue since i love doing 360 shots while kiting. Also hoping they will have dualwield swords. I can dream.

@ryan: Im quite new to your podcast btw but i have to mention that you were quite entertaining and how you went about asking questions is what drew me into staying and listening. I must ask though, are you going to be seriously playing it or are you just going in it to get knowledge about the game so you can discuss with people about it? And do you have a guild?

RE I plan to play as much as I’m able to, given work, family obligations, etc. At least initially, for release, I will increase my casual playtime.

RE guild, that depends if Coolit and his Orcs are going to mobilize for UW. Or perhaps there will be a handful of us looking to take on a tag, or sub in an alliance. Unsure at the moment. Do you have a guild site?

Well i ask because we are looking to be in alliance and whether we start one or join one doesnt matter but we definitely are interested. And if you would be interested at all, perhaps we can form one at some point. Yes we do have a site however recently a good friend of mine at the time and second in command and his friends betrayed me destroying the site. Have been working on a new one. Hopefully itle be complete soon.

TBH I had forgotten how much of a douche Luck can be. Its going to be even worse with Jonah comming back. Forums are going to be filled with shit talk and drama starting on day 1 of UHW. I really hope other guilds can get it together to fight against TSL because I really don’t want to have to listen to thier shit again.

Unfortunately from what I can tell so far it looks like TSL are going to zerg recruit get carried by a few good players and steam roll while trolling and shit talking. The rest of the clans stated to be returning have alot less power pound for pound.

Id say TSL remake followed by zealous and UDL are the clans to dominate medium to large scale. Im concerned hopefully we will see new guilds that are primairily good players form .

@battle smurf: In your analysis about which clan will dominate, are you considering the new combat dynamics created by “roles”, as well as the reduced grind, no bunny hopping, etc? In darkfall 1.0, these are a force multipliers, which will not exist in UW.

@Quin Tessence: long casts just happen. I’d be fine with a 30 min one, but I’m not going to cut shit short for some artificial time cap. Thanks for the Keno link! Will approach him for a cast. Is his forum name “Keno” or “Keno Layer”?

@ryan I think Keno’s in-game name was Keno Lair, but iv been seeing him post on the forums under just “Keno” lately, not sure if that’s him or not, but seems to be. Will be nice to hear my old clan leader again xD VG I think it was?